Felix Award For the first time, LGBT themed films will have their own prize at Festival do Rio, the Felix Award. 43 films have been pre-selected for consideration.

Published in 10/04/2014

For the first time, LGBT themed films will have their own prize at Festival do Rio, the Felix Award.  A name chosen as "Felix" is happiness in Latin.

The new award, designed by Rodrigo Cardoso, follows the dropping of the traditional and popular Gay World section from the festival programme as Festival do Rio wanted to recognise that films with LGBT themes should not be shut away in a branded closet, but should be spread across the programming of the entire festival.

When the Gay World section was introduced at Festival do Rio, it was one of the few opportunities during the year for Rio audiences to see films that addressed LGBT topics and issues. That happily is no longer the case as more and more LGBT themed films gain commercial releases in Brazil.

It is perhaps appropriate that the Felix Award is introduced just as Daniel Ribeiro's Hojé eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks) is chosen to represent Brazil at the Academy Awards. The film, which won the Teddy Award and FIPRESCI prize in Berlin, tackles LGBT issues.

43 films have been pre-selected for consideration for this year's first Felix Award and the winner was announced on 6 October at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil at 21.30.

PREMIÈRE BRASIL

Ausência, Chico Teixeira

Cássia, Paulo Herique Fontenelle

Castanha, Davi Pretto

O Clube, Alan Ribeiro

De gravata e unha vermelha, Miriam Chnaiderman

Edifício Tatuapé Mahal, Carolina Markowicz and Fernanda Salloum

Favela Gay, Rodrigo Felha

My Name Is Now, Elza Soares, Elizabeth Martins Campos

Para sempre Teu Caio F, Cande Salles

Trinta, Paulo Machline

PANORAMA

Alles Inklusive, Dorris Dorrie

Bande de Filles, Celine Sciamma

E agora? Lembra-me, Joaquim Pinto

Love is Strange, Ira Sachs

Metamorphoses, Christopher Honore

Mommy, Xavier Dolan

Night Flight, Lee song Hee-il

The Smell of Us, Larry Clark

EXPECTIONS

52 Tuesdays, Sophie Hyde

Appropriate Behaviour, Desiree Akhavan

Das Zimmermadchen Lynn, Ingo Haeb

Darker Than Midnight, Sebastiano Riso

A Girl at My Door, July Jung

Lilting, Hong Khaou

The Skeleton Twins, Craig Johnson

Something Must Break, Ester Martin Bergsmark

Xenia, Panos H. Koutra

LATIN PREMIÈRE

Feriado, Diago Araujo

MIDNIGHT MOVIES

Pierrot Lunaire, Bruce Labruce

MIDNIGHT TERROR

Der Samurai, Till Kelinert

MIDNIGHT DOCS

The Case Against 8, Ben Cotenr and Ryan White

Fucking Different XXY, Buck Angel, J.Jackie Baier, Felix Endara, Kay Garnellen, Gwen, Haworth, Jasco, Viefhues and Mor Vital.

Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn, Ethan Reid

To Be Takei, Jennifer Kroot

Vulva 3.0, Claudia Richarz and Ulrike Zimmermann

MIDNIGHT MUSIC

Björk: Biophilia Live, Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton

David Bowie Is, Hamish Hamilton 

When Björk Met Attenborough, Louise Hooper

FILME DOC

Happy To Be Different, Gianni Amelio

UNIQUE ITINERARIES

Dior and I, Frederic Tcheng

Nan Goldin - I Remember Your Face, Sabine Lidl

Regarding Susan Sontag, Nancy Kate

FRONTIERS

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographer and the Emergence of the People, Thomas Allen Harris
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